Massive Moves

Massive Moves Episodes

House movers in Missouri are tasked with the phenomenal job of moving a family farm one-third of a mile to a new site to escape suburban sprawl. But everything - from plants to outbuildings - must be put back in the exact same position.

This is a move of Biblical proportions. Heaven help the house moving team who's been hired to move an 85 ton church eleven miles across Iowa's rolling hills. Will a lot of planning and a little praying be enough to settle the steeple in its new site?

A team of house movers has the nearly impossible task of moving a 26 foot tall building through the city's slippery streets, across an airport runway and over Lake Washington to its new destination - dodging obstacles the entire way. Talk about a tall order...

Decades of brutal beatings by Mother Nature could mean lights out for Nantucket Island's most beloved landmark. Can one of America's master movers save the 500 ton Sankaty Lighthouse from crashing onto the rocks below? This is one cliff-hanger...

A struggling Canadian town is literally sitting on a gold mine. But mining the gold to get the town back on its feet could literally cause the town to cave in on itself. House movers race against the clock to move 150 houses to safety so the gold rush can begin...

Developers in Raleigh, North Carolina want to turn an historic village into a modern suburb. House movers save the day - and the historic homes - by setting them up in a new center. But it's not easy - each building has a problem as unique as its design.

If you move it, they will come. A historic museum on a frontier Virginia farm is tucked too far down a hollow to attract modern-day tourists. House-movers face driving rain storms and steep hills to move the farm's structures into clear sight.

In Sarasota, Florida, the city's landmark church is in the way of developers. Massive Movers must figure out a way to squeeze the 50 ton building across an interstate and through busy city street to deliver it to its new home.

Irony in a Swedish Iron-ore community: 450 homes and buildings are at risk of getting sucked into sinkholes caused by the mining that maintains the town's prosperity. It'll take nerves of steel to carry this community away from collapse...

Mixing church and state is ok in Salem, Massachusetts. No witchcraft is needed to move a one thousand ton church across town in the dead of winter... perhaps just a miracle. If all goes according to plan, the colossal church will be transformed into the local law library.

It's a gigantic gesture - even by Texan standards. A loving son from the Lone Star State hires a team of ranch wranglers to move a 230-ton mansion across some wild Texas terrain - as a gift to his mom.